Luke Vargas

Trade Representative Jameson Greer aims to complete the probes by mid-July.

Meanwhile, Tesla is betting big on its first new car in years, aiming to produce 31,000 driverless cybercabs at its Texas factory this year.

Tesla reporter Becky Peterson says the vehicle, which is designed to run exclusively on autonomous software, represents a high-stakes pivot for CEO Elon Musk and a major challenge for U.S.

safety regulators.

And finally, one of AI's great promises is that it will free up white-collar workers to do more high-level creative work.

But workplace reporter Ray Smith says that new data from productivity-tracking software company ActiveTrack shows the opposite is happening.

after it looked at how AI impacted 160,000 people.

And that is backed up by another study underway at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, which found that work has intensified for people using AI tools.

And that's it for What's News for this Thursday morning.

Today's show was produced by Hattie Moyer and Daniel Bach.

Our supervising producer is Sandra Kilhoff.

And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.

We will be back tonight with a new show.

Until then, thanks for listening.

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And President Trump's sons back a new drone company banking on sales to the U.S.

military.

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